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This all sux. At least MMs have no inlays,
so no one hasta prove inlays are not ivory.

Not being anti-elephant, but surely any ax
with ivory-looking inlays will be a problem
soon ... if not already :-( If abalone winds
up endangered, or is harvested at in some
way that threatens something .... Oy Vey !

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Somebody somewhere owns an MTD bass
made of semi-petrified redwood, adorned
with an actual mastodon-tusk-ivory inlay
at the twelfth fret. Best to beware where
one travels with THAT ax ... which, BTW,
was sold for about $25,000 [no typo] with
much of that total dedicated a green world
organization. Go figger ......

I don't hardly travel but if I had to, I do
have an old Steinberger to see me thru
until graphite is declared as endangered.

It would seem that ebony, at least SOME of the
sources of ebony, will sooner than later become
a problem similar as with rosewood. You'd hafta
document the SOURCE even if the entire genre
isn't banned.

I've not seen this topic arise yet on the Warwick
forum, where it could be of greater concern, for
two reasons:

Warwicks are made of MANY kinds of rare wood

.... and ....

the denizens of the Warwick forum are greatly
from Europe and surrounding regions. We here
in North America can travel thousands of miles
without crossing national borders. In Europe,
you'd cross 2 or more borders in the traveling
the distance from NJ to Colorado ! IOW, same
distance traveled equals far more borders :-(

Thaz a good thing. But I remain curious how this
topic will fly when it arises on the W forum, as the
members there are far more geographically diverse
than here ... and W is extremely CITES aware, due
to their obsession with exotic wood. They announce
from time to time product changes due to sourcing
and ethics. They had switched from wenge necks to
ovangcal for such reason 15 years ago, but recently
switched back, having found a plantation source for
wenge [not old growth nor wild forest].

I'm not pimping W here, just pondering and thinking
that since they face the CITES issue to the max, no
sense in re-inventing the wheel if a workable model
is already rolling along.